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The full scope of the Trump administration’s border wall ambitions in the Rio Grande Valley emerged this week with the revelation that the U.S. Border Patrol has plans to build 32 miles of barrier in Starr County, where flooding concerns helped kill off similar plans half a decade ago.

According to a Border Patrol map shown to local officials and stakeholders last week, and obtained by the American-Statesman, the agency has preliminary plans to wall off nearly the entirety of Hidalgo County’s southern edge. In neighboring Starr County, the map shows substantial border wall segments would be built in Rio Grande City, west of Sullivan City and a lengthy stretch from Roma to the southern tip of Falcon Lake.